(1) In shorter, sparser vegetation or near the bare dirt around woodchuck or gopher mounds, such signs will be rare.(2) In two successive school plays, I had a recurring role as a woodchuck (also known as the ground hog, and sadly also as the ‘whistle-pig’).(3) The groundhog, also called the woodchuck , is a tunnel master who finds any number of garden plants appealing both above and below the ground.(4) These animals, sometimes called ‘whistlers’, are slightly larger than their relative the woodchuck and can weigh up to 13.5 kg.(5) He searched the nearby foliage for twenty minutes before finding what he was looking for: a woodchuck 's hole in the ground.(6) It also forced me to loop through a farmer's field and invade a woodchuck 's privacy to continue my walk.(7) And to prove my commitment to the environment, let me just say this: No woodchucks were actually disturbed in the process of writing this column.(8) It is Jed Bidwell's father who, for practical reasons - the protection of crops and livestock - encourages Jed to kill woodchucks and wipe out the snake population on their property.(9) The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks , chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.(10) Clean around the bins too, removing high grass, weeds, spilled grain, and debris that attracts insects, rodents, woodchucks and other undesirable wildlife.(11) Try planting flowers that don't appeal to woodchucks .(12) To prefer the society of squirrels and woodchucks to that of our own species must surely be unnatural.(13) Squirrels range in size from the mouse-sized African pygmy squirrel to the robust marmots and woodchucks (genus Marmota).(14) But there's a good side to woodchucks , too: Their burrows provide homes for all manner of other wildlife, including rabbits, turtles and toads.(15) Unlike other marmots, woodchucks don't live in big colonies underground.(16) Along these lines, Thoreau sees that he can rejoice that his beans are food for the woodchucks as much as for people, and that the growth of the weeds is as important as that of the beans.
